An unofficial fan-made prequel to Harry Potter has been released to watch online. 'Voldemort: Origins Of The Heir' was devised by Gianmaria Pezzato and Stefano Prestia and delves into the past of Lord Voldemort.

'Ghost Stories' is a forthcoming British horror film from writer directors Andy Nyman and Jeremy Dyson. Based on a stage play which ran in the West End from 2010 to 2011, the film stars Martin Freeman from Sherlock, Paul Whitehouse from The Fast Show and Alex Lawther from Black Mirror.

Having produced three successful series of the podcast, skeptic Ian Boldsworth and Barry Dodds are now taking their winning format of supernatural debate to the medium of film. Get the latest news and behind the scenes gossip from the movie shoot.

A list of supernatural movies, paranormal films and spooky events which we're looking forward to in 2018. Get details of new and returning ghost hunting television shows, Hollywood blockbusters, and dates to remember.

Here's your essential guide to paranormal and weird television for Christmas 2017. The BBC revive the Victorian tradition of scary stories on Christmas Eve with 'Ghost Story Night' on BBC Four, there's also new episode of 'Inside No. 9', 'The League of Gentlemen', 'Black Mirror' and 'Doctor Who'.

There are plenty of Christmas movies with plots that involve the use of magic, how much can you remember about the magical elements in these festive film favourites? Test your knowledge with this quiz.

It's not like you need an excuse to raise a glass at this time of year, but our guide to some great Christmas drinks in some great Christmas films might be just the ticket for you to get the sherry out and drink along.

How well do you know the greatest Christmas movies of all time? Have a go at this quiz and see how many of these eleven classic festive films you can identify just from a random, obscure snapshot taken from the movie.

Newly formed Portkey Game will be developing games that are inspired by J.K. Rowling's stories, but they won't be direct adaptations of the original films and books. Which has got us wondering what games might be released in the coming years.

This week Warner Bros. have revealed the characters we can expect to meet in the second Fantastic Beasts movie, 'The Crimes Of Grindelwald'. As well as some familiar faces, there are some new characters to look out for.

When it comes to movie adaptations of books, Warner Bros. didn't get much wrong when they made the eight Harry Potter movies, and in general fans love them. But if there's one thing we've learnt about Potterheads, it's that they can't get enough of Harry.

I've given up on getting a girlfriend, now all I want is an AI operating system like Joaquin Phoenix has in the movie 'Her' but how far off having my own version of Samantha to chat to in the real world are we?

So you've got to the end of Stranger Things, but you're suffering withdrawal symptoms from life in Hawkins. Well, we have a cure for you, a list of all the films and TV shows that have influenced the show in some way that you can go and watch again. Or, if you're really lucky, see for the first time!

It turns out that the Netflix hit series, Stranger Things is based on a real life secret US government project, codenamed "Montauk". Conspiracy theorists believe scientists working on the project conducted mind control experiments.

We've all seen the big blockbusters like, 'The Conjuring,' 'The Others,' 'Insidious,' 'Poltergeist,' and 'The Amityville Horror' but aside from the big budget Hollywood horrors, there are plenty of other creepy movies which are worth a watch at Halloween.

Whether you're a fan of 'Most Haunted' or not, there's no denying that the long-running ghost hunting show is one of the biggest brands in the paranormal world, and it looks like the team behind the show are now hoping to bring it to the big screen.

When watching the 80s classic, 'Ghostbusters' as a kid the infamous "ghost sex" dream sequence might have gone over your head, you may have even failed to notice how ultra-horny Dana Barrett was when possessed by Zuul. But outside the world of movies, do ghosts get sexually aroused?

Found out how to watch the 'Paranormal Activity' movies in chronological order rather than in the order they were released. If you've seen the whole series before then repeat watching them in chronological order works just as well.

In times of difficulty the Ghostbusters often turn to one book to help them identify entities involved in haunting cases, that book was written by London-born John Horace Tobin and published in October 1920, but is 'Tobin's Spirit Guide' a real book?

The classic paranormal comedy movie 'Ghostbuster' introduced us to an array of spirits and demons including Gozer the Gozerian but it turns out that the demon deity first made its presence known at a haunted house in Enfield in the 1970s.

Some supernatural movies are based on real-life hauntings and true stories, others are nothing more than a work of fiction but either way there aren't many films that manage to accurately recreate what it's like to be haunted by a ghost.

'Unacknowledged' is a 2017 documentary film based on the work of ufologist Steven M. Greer's Disclosure Project files. In the film, Greer and his assembled team of witnesses reveal how the truth about UFOs and extraterrestrial contact has been kept from the public since since the 1950s.

Hollywood movies like 'Insidious,' 'The Conjuring' and 'Paranormal Activity' would have us believe that malevolent ghosts have the ability to manifest into physical forms and injure or even kill humans. There has been countless tales of encounters with the paranormal but have any of these hauntings ever resulted in death?

We've all got our favourite sci-fi aliens from ET who's just desperate to get home, to Tribbles the fury pests encountered by James T Kirk. But while some aliens are friendly and cute, others are the stuff of nightmares. Here is the list of the twenty most frightening extraterrestrials from the best science fiction television shows and movies.

There are 26 different types of creatures in the new Fantastic Beasts movie, some get a full introduction by Newton Scamander and plenty of screen-time, while other beasts are only visible for a fleeting glimpse and in the background of shots.

The 47 conspiracy or 47 reference is the observation that the number 47, multiples of the number, its reverse 74, or combinations of 4 and 7 appear with unnatural frequency in television shows and movies. These occurrences are most prevalent in the Star Trek universe, in the 'The Next Generation', 'Voyager' and the latest J. J. Abrams movies.

Do you know a flux capacitor from a time vortex? Do you know which steps to take to prevent a paradox? Test your knowledge of time travel in science and popular culture in this tricky quiz which would test even a Time Lord's abilities in temporal mechanics.

Probably the most famous paranormal researchers of all time. The husband and wife team investigated such cases as Big Foot and the Amityville haunting, and have been portrayed in the horror movie, 'The Conjuring'.

For me the music alone gave me goosebumps while the rest of the trailer has got me totally pumped in anticipation of the movie, like any good trailer should but I'm sad to see that on the whole the teaser has received a negative reception. The trailer video on YouTube currently has double the amount of dislikes and likes and the comments are full of criticism.

We're halfway through the first series of The Parapod and it's still a stalemate. Ray Peacock is still refusing to believe in the paranormal and Barry Dodds is still convinced that ghosts exist. In this episode Barry tries to change Ray's mind with the story case of Doris Bither.

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